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Fund · iShares MSCI Germany ETF · measured from SEC filings

EWG holdings

EWG reports 57 holdings and behaves like 18.8 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

3.0% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 18.5

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

57 Positions reported
18.8 Effective holdings
3× Concentration multiple
62.46% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 7.3% at a quoted market price (level 1), 4 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EWG's largest investment is Siemens AG at 11.97% of net assets. SAP SE and Allianz SE follow; the three together are 29.94%. Ten companies are 62.46% of the fund; the other 47 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EWG behaves like 18.8 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.3 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EWG has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (23.3 then, 18.8 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 2 positions were added and 1 dropped; 6.1% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, EWG went from behaving like 23.3 equally weighted positions to 18.8 — 19% fewer, while its top ten went from 56.46% to 62.46% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 57 18.8 62.46% 11.99%
2026-02-28 56 19.5 61.51% 10.65%
2025-11-30 57 18.5 61.24% 13.14%
2025-08-31 56 17.4 61.97% 14.63%
2025-05-31 56 16.5 62.28% 16.54%
2025-02-28 58 15.9 61.31% 17.15%
2024-11-30 58 16.8 60.04% 16.44%
2024-08-31 59 18.6 58.46% 14.98%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 58 20.2 57.46% 13.03%
2024-02-29 60 19.2 58.74% 13.69%
2023-11-30 61 21 56.96% 12.48%
2023-08-31 60 23 56.15% 11.1%
2023-05-31 61 22.6 56.71% 10.74%
2023-02-28 61 24 55.58% 9.32%
2022-11-30 63 24.1 55.32% 9.7%
2022-08-31 61 26.1 52.72% 8.78%
2022-05-31 63 25.8 53.3% 8.46%
2022-02-28 62 26.9 51.56% 8.65%
2021-11-30 63 26.4 52.72% 9.2%
2021-08-31 64 26.9 51.91% 9.67%
2021-05-31 64 26.8 52.67% 8.98%
2021-02-28 65 26.9 52.89% 8.69%
2020-11-30 66 26.9 52.1% 9.17%
2020-08-31 64 22.8 54.44% 12.73%
2020-05-31 61 24 53.76% 11.16%
2020-02-29 60 24 54.53% 10.63%
2019-11-30 64 23.3 56.46% 10.55%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

As filed, collateral included

2.99% collateral

EWG's filing lists 58 positions including 2.99% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 18.5 effective holdings with a top ten of 62.61%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 18.8 with a top ten of 62.46%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-05-31

The 15 largest of 57 positions in EWG's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EWG.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Siemens Aktiengesellschaft11.99%12.0%
2SAP SE9.51%21.5%
3Allianz SE8.48%30.0%
4Siemens Energy AG7.38%37.4%
5Infineon Technologies AG6.23%43.6%
6Deutsche Telekom AG6.22%49.8%
7Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft3.49%53.3%
8Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in Muenchen3.45%56.7%
9Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft2.96%59.7%
10Deutsche Post AG2.76%62.5%
11Deutsche Boerse Aktiengesellschaft2.73%65.2%
12BASF SE2.66%67.9%
13E.ON SE2.40%70.2%
14Mercedes-Benz Group AG2.21%72.5%
15Bayer Aktiengesellschaft2.10%74.6%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

Share of EWG's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
Germany 99.27%
Netherlands° 0.38%
Not stated in filing 0.26%
United States 0.09%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of EWG's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

5.3%Last twelve months filed
92%Whole series, compounded
17.1%Best month
-17.1%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.21 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EWG.json · all funds.

Who borrows EWG's shares

2026-05-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $42m was out to 7 borrowers, 2.84% of net assets. The largest, BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP, held 50.5% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP $21m 50.5%
STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY $10m 24.4%
UBS AG $6m 14.1%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $4m 9.5%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $486,397 1.2%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 2.99% of net assets, 105.3% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter EWG has filed, with each borrower: EWG.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

56 positions became 57: 2 added (0.3% of the fund at the later date), 1 dropped (0.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 6.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EWG compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
Infineon Technologies AG3.41%6.23% Deutsche Telekom AG7.16%6.22%
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft10.65%11.99% Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft4.41%3.49%
Deutsche Boerse Aktiengesellschaft2.49%2.73% Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaf4.13%3.45%
Delivery Hero SE0.22%0.42% SAP SE10.16%9.51%
BASF SE2.48%2.66% Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA1.23%0.90%
COMMERZBANK Aktiengesellschaft.1.44%1.59% Vonovia SE1.24%0.96%

New: EURO (0.26%), DAX INDEX FUTURE JUN26 (0.01%). Gone: Eurex Deutschland (0.00%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC96.74%
short-term investment STIV3.00%
unknown unknown0.25%

7.3% of EWG is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-05-31

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $1.47B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.5%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.39%Futures notional (1)
99.9%Sum, % of net assets

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

10

Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of EWG (18.8). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
RAA SMI 3Fourteen REAL Asset Allocation ETF 183 18.4 60.33% 2026-06-30
KBWB Invesco KBW Bank ETF 26 18.5 61.55% 2026-05-31
IYH iShares U.S. Healthcare ETF 102 18.6 59.09% 2026-07-31
XLB State Street(R) Materials Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF 29 18.7 58.41% 2026-06-30
NAIL Direxion Daily Homebuilders & Supplies Bull 3X Shares 48 18.7 * 63.46% 2026-07-31
VONG Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund 393 18.9 61.23% 2026-05-31
CQQQ Invesco China Technology ETF 181 19 57.79% 2026-07-31
MLPI NEOS MLP & Energy Infrastructure High Income ETF 26 19 61.94% 2026-06-30
LGH HCM Defender 500 Index ETF 418 19 50.62% 2026-06-30
IDGT iShares U.S. Digital Infrastructure and Real Estate ETF 27 19 60.12% 2026-06-30

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